Sentence examples for first affirmation from inspiring English sources

Built in 1600 by King Birhambir as the first affirmation of the might of the dynasty, it originally housed statues taken from temples throughout the area.

The first affirmation is that the best things are the more eternal things, while the second is that we are better off even now if we believe the first affirmation.

[and] the second affirmation of religion is that we are better off now if we believe her first affirmation to be true' (James 1896/1956, 25 6).

'Perfection is eternal,' this phrase of Charles Secrétan seems a good way of putting this first affirmation of religion" (James 1896, 25).

The first affirmation is particularly puzzling, since James does not assert that the best things are the eternal things; he says that the best things are the more eternal things.

If we understand "more eternal" as a kind of necessity, or non-contingency, then perhaps the first affirmation may be understood as asserting that the best things are those things that cannot fail to be sovereign and perfect.

Those words were used almost verbatim by Washington in his response, one of the nation's first affirmations of religious liberty.

In order to prove the second affirmation, notice that since.

Monotheism, in other words, and not polytheism is established by the third affirmation.

The second affirmation is that we are better off now by believing in the existence of this perfect being.

If we take this as a third affirmation of religion (perhaps at the risk a charge of theistic parochialism), the possibility that the more eternal things are plural is foreclosed.